Comment by scarface74
4 years ago
What are the chances that our scheduling a flight that was already scheduled to fly 6-9 months prior caused the airline to add another route?
4 years ago
What are the chances that our scheduling a flight that was already scheduled to fly 6-9 months prior caused the airline to add another route?
What do you think would be the chances of a flight taking off empty, day after day, without the airline cancelling it?
I fly for both business and leisure myself, but arguing that "the plane will take off with or without me on it" is beyond ridiculous.
Unless you have your own private plane, the airplane would just as much take off without you as Google would still be running servers whether you used it or not.
Are you alone going to make a difference by not flying? Like that neocon anti-environmental Obama said “we aren’t going to save the planet by throwing a bottle in the recycling bin”
Is it really that hard to understand?
The airplane takes off if, on average, the sum of dollars that all ticketed passengers are willing to pay for the benefit of being on it is larger than the operational and capital cost of the airline for operating that one flight.
Your contribution (in a purely causal sense, regardless of what moral statement you might read into it) to all of this is very indirect and diluted, but that does not make it zero.
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You know, if there are enough people like you then you can generate a lot of additional demand for flights, and an airline will actually add flights to their schedule to accommodate that. The law of supply and demand still works here.
Having said that: fuck carbon footprint!
Yes, I’m sure there are lots of people like me who are willing to throw away everything they own that won’t fit in three suitcases and travel around the US for half the year.
"I am a beautiful and unique snowflake, there aren't really any people like me" is a wrong answer here :) We are not talking about people exactly like you, we're talking about people taking a lot of unnecessary trips just for fun. Some will do that constantly, like you, some will try this for a month or two. Still those travels add up.
Again, I'll take having fun over saving the planet every time, let's just stop pretending that your travels add no carbon emissions.
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